Quick Overview

Auto accompaniment software for musicians, songwriters, and educators

Perfect for musicians, songwriters, and educators – award-winning Band-in-a-Box is the world’s premiere auto accompaniment and style-based music creation software. Use it to easily create backing tracks for songs, jam tracks for practicing solos and improvisation, or as a powerful songwriting tool. Just type in some chords (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose a style, and Band-in-a-Boxautomatically creates professional-quality backing tracks with keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, strings, and other instruments. Band-in-a-Box supports a wide variety of popular styles including Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, Celtic, Blues, Jazz, Latin, and Bluegrass styles. You can also create jam tracks using your own Hybrid Styles.

Your backing tracks will sound even better with RealDrums and RealTracks. These sound best because they are actual recordings of the performances by top studio musicians. RealTracks are available in a wide range of musical styles, keys, and tempos. RealStyle automatically selects RealTracks for you when generating an arrangement. RealCharts even lets you view the music notation and guitar tab/fretboard display.

For added versatility, you can import your own or 3rd party loops or your favorite MIDITrack in any style to any track in your arrangement. Use the built-in mixer to control volume, panning, tone, and reverb for each instrument in your ultra-realistic Band-in-a-Box arrangement. The “Combo” slider lets you make changes to all tracks at once.

Already have a song recording? A unique Audio Chord Wizard can detect the chords in any AIFF, MP4, M4A, or other audio files and display them inside Band-in-a-Box, and an Audio Wizard can determine the tempo, bar lines, and song’s key.

Print your song arrangements as sheet music or save as audio files (AIFF, M4A, WAV) for use in other programs (e.g., GarageBand, Cubase, etc.) or to share on the Internet.

New features for Band-in-a-Box 2018 for Windows include:

Introducing Video RealTracks, which work like RealTracks with videos of the musician’s performance.

A new, ultra-low latency audio driver (Windows Audio Session).

A redesigned Audio Chord Wizard.

The Audio Harmonies feature has been enhanced with Audio Transcription, which converts a monophonic audio track to notation.

A new Fix Tuning feature to correct an out-of-tune audio recording.

Export the Notation Window to video synchronized with the audio track playback.

Support for compound time signatures such as 12/8, 6/8, and 9/8.

Toolbar skins and other customization features.

Open or Save As ABC notation files, which as common song files on the Internet with chords and melody.

Export your song as a high-resolution MP3.

A redesigned Audio Edit Window with new features.

202 new RealTracks – bringing the total up to 300!and more!

Features include:

Generates backing tracks and jam tracks in all popular music styles including Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock, Pop, Country, Folk, and more!

Automatically generated melodies and solos that you can study.

RealTracks and RealDrums that give you access to recordings by top studio musicians for use in your songs.

The new Audio Edit Window displays a digital waveform for the Audio track for selecting, playing, and editing audio.

1,000 modern electronic dance and Top 40/pop style loops.

Import/Export of AppleLoops on Mac and Acid files on Windows.

MIDI styles and MIDI SuperTracks that allow you to customize MIDI sounds and edit notes.

Instrumental Studies for guitar with performances to help you learn to play backing or lead guitar in different styles.

Print song arrangements as a lead sheets including music notation.

sforzando VST synthesizer with support for the popular .SFZ sound format and Hi-Q sounds.

Band-in-a-Box for Windows also includes RealBand

Band-in-a-Box is available a in a variety of configurations to suit your needs.

Band-in-a-Box Pro 2018 (2017 for Mac) includes over 300 (200) RealTracks in 50 (38) bands, providing access to over 250 (220) hours of recordings by top studio musicians to use on your own songs. Also you get 54 MIDI SuperTracks; 22 Artist Performances; over 400 MIDI Styles; over 150 MIDI Soloists and over 100 MIDI Melodists; plus nature sounds, percussion, and over 1000 dubstep, modern, and top 40 loops! Also you can load and play videos as well as save as video!

Use Band-in-a-Box to write songs or to practice improvisation and soloing. Band-in-a-Box easily delivers great sounding backing tracks in a multitude of styles.

New features for Band-in-a-Box 2018 for Windows include:

Introducing Video RealTracks, which work like RealTracks with videos of the musician’s performance.

A new, ultra-low latency audio driver (Windows Audio Session).

A redesigned Audio Chord Wizard.

The Audio Harmonies feature has been enhanced with Audio Transcription, which converts a monophonic audio track to notation.

A new Fix Tuning feature to correct an out-of-tune audio recording.

Export the Notation Window to video synchronized with the audio track playback.

Support for compound time signatures such as 12/8, 6/8, and 9/8.

Toolbar skins and other customization features.

Open or Save As ABC notation files, which as common song files on the Internet with chords and melody.

Export your song as a high-resolution MP3.

A redesigned Audio Edit Window with new features.

202 new RealTracks – bringing the total up to 300!

and more!

Automatic Music Accompaniment

Award-winning Band-in-a-Box is easy-to-use, intelligent music accompaniment software. Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (i.e., C, Fm7, C13b9), choose the style you would like played by the band, and Band-in-a-Box does the rest!

Studio Musicians Are Always on Call For You

RealTracks are actual recordings of performances by musicians in a multitude of musical styles, tempos, and keys. It’s like having live studio musicians available to play anytime! There are over 1,800 RealTracks included in the UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK which equates to over 2,200 hours of recorded performances! You get RealTracks for guitar, bass, piano, banjo, saxophone, and much more! RealDrums (a types of RealTrack) give you the perfect drum groove complete with fills and brushes for jazz arrangements. You even get “Woodshedding” RealTracks from Brent Mason played in 12 keys. They are displayed with Hi-Q Tab/Notation, which is ideal for studying and learning!

Bands in a Wide Variety of Styles

RealCombos are preset arrangements of RealTracks in specific styles. They make it easy to select RealTracks for your song. For example, the “Jazz Swing 140” RealCombo includes RealCombo includes bass, piano, guitar, sax, and drums that were recorded at a medium swing tempo of 140 bpm. (Note that RealTracks can be used at any tempo; however, they sound most natural when played close to the original recorded tempo.)

Create Your Own Style

Hybrid Styles allow you to mix-and-match instruments from up to five RealCombos so you can create your custom sound. For example, your custom arrangement could have a Reggae bass, Rock drums, and Salsa piano. Create a name for your Hybrid Style, save it, and use it anytime.

Amazing Vocal Harmonies

Simply record your vocal part, choose a harmony, and Band-in-a-Box will generate up to four part vocal harmonies for you using the world-leading TC-Helicon Vocal Technologies engine. If your singing is not in perfect tune, Band-in-a-Box can “fix” vocals to the correct pitch using the Melody track.

Save, Print, Render, and Share Your Music

Want people to perform your song live? Just print out your complete song arrangement as sheet music.

Want an audio recording? Export directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, or WAV) for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.) or to share on the Internet.

VST Support

VST plugin support allows Band-in-a-Box to access a huge library of 3rd party software instruments (synthesizer) that play through your computer without requiring external MIDI hardware. Each Band-in-a-Box track lets you use multiple instruments for distinctive layered sounds. You can also use VST audio plug-ins (reverb, delay etc.) to enhance your tracks. Customize over 150 of the guitar-based RealTracks with the Guitar Amp Simulator (AmpliTube CS). Band-in-a-Boxincludes the sforzando VST synthesizer with support for the popular .SFZ sound format as well as Hi-Q sounds.

Band-in-a-Box is developed by PG Music.

System requirements

Windows®:

Windows: XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32 or 64-bit)

Minimum 1GHz Processor (2GHz+ multicore recommended)

Minimum 1 GB of free hard disk space*

Minimum 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)

Macintosh®:

Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.13 (Intel processor required)

Minimum 2 GB of free hard disk space*

Minimum 512MB RAM

Internet connection recommended for activation and updates.

* More space is required for RealDrums and RealTracks (100 - 400 MB per set), depending on which package you buy. Pro RealCombos: ~10 GB MegaPAK RealCombos: ~20 GB Full UltraPAK+ (EverythingPAK for Mac) or UltraPAK (UltraPlusPAK for Mac) when installed to internal hard drive: ~90 GB (another ~80GB is required for the installation files when downloading the UltraPAK+ (EverythingPAK for Mac) or UltraPAK (UltraPlusPAK for Mac) DVD-ROM drive (for boxed MegaPAK or Pro versions).

Note: Hard Drive versions of the UltraPAK+ (EverythingPAK for Mac) or UltraPAK (UltraPlusPAK for Mac) do not require any hard disk space when run directly from the external hard drive they are shipped on.